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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving By: Meghan Thanksgiving is the time of year. To gather friends, and family near. Giving thanks to all the blessings true. can you think of anything better to do? Turkey, dressing, salads, pie. Sit at the table don't let the fun pass you by. Cousins, grandmas, uncles, and aunts. Take some food or you'll miss your chance. The meal is tasty conversation good. When dinner is over we'll play in the neighborhood. Card games, crafs, jokes and fun. I'm so exhausted when we're all done. Early to bed befor my parents say. For tomorrow is, Black Friday

OUR CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE

We had so much fun on our Disneyland Vacation. We left Monroe on May 31st after church and traveled to Circus Circus in Las Vegas. The next morning we went to the M&M factory and the Coke Store. All of the kids went wild in the M&M factory and purchased $40 worth of M&M's. We spent what seemed like hours and hours waiting for Katie, Ryan and Jaxon to shop in the two stores. It was afternoon before we were able to drag them away and continue on our trip. We made a stop in Baker and then again in Barstow to shop at the factory outlets. Then we headed for Anahiem. Once we found our hotel, we headed for the Balboa Beach. It was awesome. We all had a lot of fun playing in the water and sand, finding seashells and gathering sand on our clothes. When we left Balboa, Terral took the long way to the hotel. All the way the kids were screaming in the backseat about having sand in their pants. I think that we took most of the beach back to the hotel with us. Mom was not too excited to see how sandy the van was! The following two days we spent at Disneyland and California Adventure having tons of fun. It took Maycee a little while to warm up to the rides. I should have been a little more selective on which ride to take her on first. She wasn't impressed with Pinnochio's Scary Adventure or The Pirates of the Carribbean. Before leaving California we had to go to the beach one more time. This time I was searching for tide pools, so we went down to Laguna Beach. Unfortunately we didn't get to see any ocean critters in pools because the tide was too high, but it was beautiful ! The drive home was horrid !!!! We drove straight through with only a few stops. I was finally able to drive from north of Cedar City to home. The mighty men were finally tired of driving. Needless to say, we arrived home around 11:00 p.m. on Thursday June 4th.

Disneyland... here we come!!!

On June 1st our family, my sister Katie's family and my mom are all heading to Disneyland ! In fifteen years of marriage we have never been able to be away from the farm for more that 24 hours. So, as you can imagine, I am very excited!!! Our kids have never been out of the state of Utah, so they are thrilled also. My mom is going to rent a really big van for all us. I think that it will be really fun.

LOLA DIED !!!

Easter morning a terrible thing happened. We found Lola, the parakeet, lifeless in the bottom of her cage . We aren't sure how she died, but we think that the fact that Marshal left the window open by Lola's cage might have something to do with the death. Meghan cried and cried and cried . She didn't want her ( the bird) to die. The next day we went to get a new bird. Her name is Kewei. She is so sweet . She is lime green with a hint of yellow. She also has stripes down her back. She is older than Lola was when we got her. We were worried about taming her, but so far she is doing great. Kewei (or Weewee as Maycee calls her) is enjoying her new cage as well. Meghan isn't spoiled or anything!!!

MEGHAN'S bird on the chrismas tree

ON DAY WE HAD MEGHAN'S BIRD OUT AND SHE PUT IT ON THE CHRISMAS TREEAND LOLA LOVED IT.

Meghan got her first bird

Meghan got her first bird . I made a deal with Meghan that if she went to school for one week and she did . So she got a bird . Seh loves it.

meghan

Tiger the Parakeet

Our parakeet Tiger has been kinda sick lately. His beak grows and grows until it touches his chest. A month ago we took him to the pet shop and had his beak clipped. The girls at the pet shop said that he had lice and recommended that we buy spray to get rid of the lice. So, Marshal has been spraying him and his beak is still growing. I have clipped his beak twice with nail clippers. Meghan held him the last time that I clipped his beak and she said that she would not hold him the next time that I clipped his beak because she thinks that it hurts him. ANYWAY.... we stopped by the pet shop today ( bad idea) and talked to another lady about Tiger. She told us that some of Tiger's problem was that he was bored. She quizzed us about his diet, amount of toys in his cage, how many hours of quiet time he gets, if we cover him at night, did we have any candles in our house etc. etc. We felt like we were mistreating our beloved bird. So needless to say, we came out of the pet shop with toys for the bird, toys for the kids to make for the bird, special color enhancing bird seed, a play box that the bird can tear apart and of course a disc for his cage to keep the lice away. That lady was quite the salesman !!!!
We'll post a pic of Tiger later....

Our Yard

I have really work hard on our yard this year. I started in early spring with planting a garden. The children helped alot with the planting. We had some pea plants that took a long time to come up due to the depth that the kids planted the seeds. My flowers are all looking beautiful, so I took some pictures.

New Swimming Pool !

The other day I finally caved in and bought the kids a swimming pool. It is 12 feet in diameter and about 36 inches deep. I don't fill it up all the way, so it really isn't that deep. Maycee absolutely loves it!! She would swim all day and all night if we let her. Meghan loves it too! Marshal has only swam once. It was a real pain to try to find a level spot in our backyard to set it up in. We ended up setting it up on the cement patio.

Maycee Loves to Swing

Monday night Jacey came over to play for awhile. Jaxon was already at our house. I think that he is my fourth child. Anyway, I thought what a great photo opportunity. I took alot of pictures although none of them turned out very well. Maycee was not excited about having to stay still, so I just kept taking pictures hoping that one would turn out well enough to make mom a big picture of it. The other kids got really, really bored as you can tell by the look on their faces.

Maycee and Her Umbrella

Last night while we were watering the lawn with the sprinkler Maycee went and found her umbrella. She had so much fun playing in the sprinkler with it.

Grandma Farm Turns 71 !!!

On June 11th Grandma Farm had her 71st birthday. Meghan made her a special cake. It was white with confetti sprinkles on the pink frosting. She added 10 candles to the top. Maycee would not leave it alone. She wanted to eat it, so we ended up taking it to Grandma and eating it before lunch.